A high court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling that ordered the city of Higashimatsushima in Japan's Miyagi Prefecture to pay 26.5 million yen ($238,000) in damages to the family of a schoolgirl killed by tsunami in 2011.The Sendai High Court recognized the city-run Nobiru Elementary School to which the 9-year-old girl had evacuated was partly to blame for her death, but rejected the damages claim by the family of an 86-year-old woman who was engulfed by an earthquake-triggered tsunami at the same school. The school was a designated evacuation site in the coastal city in Miyagi Prefec…READ FULL ARTICLE
